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Research

Thalachallour Mohanakumar, PhD, the Jacqueline and William Maritz Professor of Surgery, works with a tissue culture in his lab.

The Section of Transplantation maintains a strong interest in research related to liver, kidney and pancreas transplantation and nontransplant surgical conditions.

Recent investigations include:

The mechanisms involved in hepatitis C recurrence after liver transplantation to determine why some transplant patients have a more accelerated course and significant early liver injury from hepatitis C.

Liver transplant rejection

Image-guided liver surgery

Risk factors for rejection and infection in pediatric liver transplantation